Hi, Ron,

Thanks. I understand now. It may be useful to add a reference to JWT in the
KIP.

Jun

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Ron Dagostino <rndg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jun.  I think you are getting at the fact that OAuth 2 is a flexible
> framework that allows different installations to do things differently.  It
> is true that the principal name in Kafka could come from any claim in the
> token.  Most of the time it would come from the 'sub' claim, but it could
> certainly come from another claim, or it could be only indirectly based on
> a claim value (maybe certain text would be trimmed or prefixed/suffixed).
> The point, which I think you are getting at, is that because the framework
> is flexible we need to accommodate that flexibility.  The callback handler
> class defined by the listener.name.sasl_ssl.oauthbearer.sasl.server.
> callback.handler.class configuration value gives us the required
> flexibility.  As an example, I have an implementation that leverages a
> popular open source JOSE library to parse the compact serialization,
> retrieve the public key if it has not yet been retrieved, verify the
> digital signature, and map the 'sub' claim to the OAuthBearerToken's
> principal name (which becomes the SASL authorization ID, which becomes the
> Kafka principal name).  I could just as easily have mapped a different
> claim to the OAuthBearerToken's principal name, manipulated the 'sub' claim
> value in some way, etc.  I write the callback handler code, so I complete
> flexibility to do whatever my OAuth 2 installation requires me to do.
>
> Ron
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Ron,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I understood your answers to #2 and #3.
> >
> > For #1, will the server map all clients' principal name to the value
> > associated with "sub" claim? How do we support mapping different clients
> to
> > different principal names?
> >
> > Jun
> >
> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Ron Dagostino <rndg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jun.  Thanks for the +1 vote.
> > >
> > > Regarding the first question about token claims, yes, you have it
> correct
> > > about translating the OAuth token to a principle name via a JAAS module
> > > option in the default unsecured case.  Specifically, the OAuth SASL
> > Server
> > > implementation is responsible for setting the authorization ID, and it
> > gets
> > > the authorization ID from the OAuthBearerToken's principalName()
> method.
> > > The listener.name.sasl_ssl.oauthbearer.sasl.server.
> > callback.handler.class
> > > is responsible for handling an instance of OAuthBearerValidatorCallback
> > to
> > > accept a token compact serialization from the client and return an
> > instance
> > > of OAuthBearerToken (assuming the compact serialization validates), and
> > in
> > > the default unsecured case the builtin unsecured validator callback
> > handler
> > > defines the OAuthBearerToken.principalName() method to return the
> 'sub'
> > > claim value by default (with the actual claim it uses being
> configurable
> > > via the unsecuredValidatorPrincipalClaimName JAAS module option).  So
> > that
> > > is how we translate from a token to a principal name in the default
> > > unsecured (out-of-the-box) case.
> > >
> > > For production use cases, the implementation associated with
> > > listener.name.sasl_ssl.oauthbearer.sasl.server.callback.handler.class
> > can
> > > do whatever it wants.  As an example, I have written a class that
> wraps a
> > > com.nimbusds.jwt.SignedJWT instance (see
> > > https://connect2id.com/products/nimbus-jose-jwt/) and presents it as
> an
> > > OAuthBearerToken:
> > >
> > > public class NimbusSignedJwtOAuthBearerToken implements
> > OAuthBearerToken {
> > >     private final SignedJWT signedJwt;
> > >     private final String principalName;
> > >     private final Set<String> scope;
> > >     private final Long startTimeMs;
> > >     private final long lifetimeMs;
> > >
> > >     /**
> > >      * Constructor
> > >      *
> > >      * @param signedJwt
> > >      *            the mandatory signed JWT
> > >      * @param principalClaimName
> > >      *            the mandatory claim name identifying the claim from
> > which
> > > the
> > >      *            principal name will be extracted. The claim must
> exist
> > > and must be
> > >      *            a String.
> > >      * @param optionalScopeClaimName
> > >      *            the optional claim name identifying the claim from
> > which
> > > any scope
> > >      *            will be extracted. If specified and the claim exists
> > then
> > > the
> > >      *            value must be either a String or a String List.
> > >      * @throws ParseException
> > >      *             if the principal claim does not exist or is not a
> > > String; the
> > >      *             scope claim is neither a String nor a String List;
> the
> > > 'exp'
> > >      *             claim does not exist or is not a number; the 'iat'
> > claim
> > > exists
> > >      *             but is not a number; or the 'nbf' claim exists and
> is
> > > not a
> > >      *             number.
> > >      */
> > >     public NimbusSignedJwtOAuthBearerToken(SignedJWT signedJwt, String
> > > principalClaimName,
> > >             String optionalScopeClaimName) throws ParseException {
> > >         // etc...
> > >     }
> > >
> > > The callback handler runs the following code if the digital signature
> > > validates:
> > >
> > >     callback.token(new NimbusSignedJwtOAuthBearerToken(signedJwt,
> "sub",
> > > null));
> > >
> > > I hope that answers the first question.  If not let me know what I
> > > missed/misunderstood and I'll be glad to try to address it.
> > >
> > > Regarding the second question, the classes OAuthBearerTokenCallback and
> > > OAuthBearerValidatorCallback implement the Callback interface -- they
> are
> > > the callbacks that the AuthenticateCallbackHandler implementations need
> > to
> > > handle.  Specifically, unless the unsecured functionality is what is
> > > desired, the two configuration values [listener.name.sasl_ssl.
> > oauthbearer.
> > > ]sasl.login.callback.handler.class and
> > > listener.name.sasl_ssl.oauthbearer.sasl.server.callback.handler.class
> > > define the callback handlers that need to handle
> OAuthBearerTokenCallback
> > > and OAuthBearerValidatorCallback, respectively.
> > >
> > > Regarding the third question, yes, I see your point that the way the
> spec
> > > is worded could be taken to imply that the error code is a single
> > > character: "A single ASCII..." (
> > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-5.2).  However, it is not
> a
> > > single character.  See the end of that section 5.2 for an example that
> > > shows "error":"invalid_request" as the response.
> > >
> > > Thanks again for the +1 vote, Jun, and please do let me know if I can
> > cover
> > > anything else.
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, Ron,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the KIP. +1 from me. Just a few minor comments below.
> > > >
> > > > 1. It seems that we can translate an OAuth token to a principle name
> > > > through the claim name configured in JASS. However, it's not clear to
> > me
> > > > how an OAuth token is mapped to a claim. Could you clarify that?
> > > >
> > > > 2. The wiki has the following code. It seems that
> > > OAuthBearerTokenCallback
> > > > should implement AuthenticateCallbackHandler? Ditto
> > > > for OAuthBearerValidatorCallback.
> > > >
> > > > public class OAuthBearerTokenCallback implements Callback
> > > >
> > > > 3. In OAuthBearerTokenCallback, we have the following method. The
> OAuth
> > > > spec says the error code is a single ASCII. So, should we return a
> Char
> > > or
> > > > a String?
> > > >
> > > > public String errorCode()
> > > >
> > > > Jun
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Ron Dagostino <rndg...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi everyone.  I would like to start the vote for KIP-255:
> > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.
> > > > action?pageId=75968876
> > > > >
> > > > > This KIP proposes to add the following functionality related to
> > > > > SASL/OAUTHBEARER:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) Allow clients (both brokers when SASL/OAUTHBEARER is the
> > > inter-broker
> > > > > protocol as well as non-broker clients) to flexibly retrieve an
> > access
> > > > > token from an OAuth 2 authorization server based on the declaration
> > of
> > > a
> > > > > custom login CallbackHandler implementation and have that access
> > token
> > > > > transparently and automatically transmitted to a broker for
> > > > authentication.
> > > > >
> > > > > 2) Allow brokers to flexibly validate provided access tokens when a
> > > > client
> > > > > establishes a connection based on the declaration of a custom SASL
> > > Server
> > > > > CallbackHandler implementation.
> > > > >
> > > > > 3) Provide implementations of the above retrieval and validation
> > > features
> > > > > based on an unsecured JSON Web Token that function out-of-the-box
> > with
> > > > > minimal configuration required (i.e. implementations of the two
> types
> > > of
> > > > > callback handlers mentioned above will be used by default with no
> > need
> > > to
> > > > > explicitly declare them).
> > > > >
> > > > > 4) Allow clients (both brokers when SASL/OAUTHBEARER is the
> > > inter-broker
> > > > > protocol as well as non-broker clients) to transparently retrieve a
> > new
> > > > > access token in the background before the existing access token
> > expires
> > > > in
> > > > > case the client has to open new connections.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Ron
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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